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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What anniversary is the couple in "The Seduction" now celebrating?

2. Where does Amber have dinner with the person who misdials her?

3. What does the narrator want to do for her boyfriend in "Animal Farm"?

4. What does the narrator dream about in "Harlem Blues"?

5. What is the result of the narrator and the piano player's encounter in "Harlem Blues"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in "Animal Farm"?

2. What is the result of the piano player and the narrator's night alone in "Harlem Blues"?

3. What does the narrator come to realize in "The Diary"?

4. Why is it so easy for the narrator of "Harlem Blues" to sing the blues?

5. Describe the narrator's alter ego in "Nervous".

6. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

7. In "The Seduction" where does the narrator seduce her boyfriend into going and how?

8. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

9. Describe the narrator in "Lust in a Bust Depot".

10. What is the result of the narrator's night alone with Geren in "Sock It To Me"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a story from each section, Wild, Wilder, and Off Da Damn Hook to describe and explain the sexual repression women are constantly struggling with. Include how each story gets progressively more graphic and less appropriate for the general public.

Essay Topic 2

Explain and discuss the section Wild and how most of its stories are connected to one another with the commonality that each couple's relationship begins with romantic and intimate first encounters. What do you think Zane is suggesting with these types of stories?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and explain how the content of "The Valley of the Freaks" parallels the content of "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" in that both increase their sexually inappropriate content.

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